Sarah Michelle Gellar: 'I didn't like fans calling me Buffy'

Gellar starred as the eponymous vampire slayer in Buffy from 1996 to 2003.

She told Bullet: "Back then, if you'd called me Buffy I would probably have been really annoyed. Now, of course, I get it and I'm appreciative of it.

"But that's something that comes with maturity, which most people don't have when they're 24 years old."

The Ringer actress said that although she got her desire to party and smoke cigarettes out of her system when she was younger, she was still concerned with how she was portrayed in public away from the set of Buffy.

"I just didn't want to be seen with a drink in my hand," Gellar explained. "People looked up to Buffy, and she was a character that girls respected."